According to a study by the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, migrant laborers account for 58 percent of the fishing workforce in Kerala’s marine fisheries sector.
A release by the CMFRI states that the crop, after the crop, and the study conducted in market segments indicate that migrant workers have emerged as the backbone of the maritime sector in the state.
The findings were from the Kerala component of the National Research Project on the changing dynamics of labor migration on employment, livelihood and resource productivity patterns in the Indian maritime fisheries sector.
The study found that Munambam port in Ernakulam district has the highest concentration of 78 percent of migrant laborers in the mechanized fishing area of ​​Kerala.
The migrant laborers are mostly from Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha, the release said that the study has been quoted as saying.
The migrants formed 50 percent in units after harvesting and 40 percent in fish markets.
The study also showed that there was a growing apathy between the original and migrant younger generations in pursuing livelihood in the maritime field, indicating uncertainty about the long -term stability of the workforce in the region, indicating in the release.
This conclusion was presented at an advisory workshop held in CMFRI on Wednesday.
The release said that the workshop was organized to assemble reactions to the findings and to collect additional inputs from various stakeholders, which are both indigenous and migrant to support the research project, whose chief investigator who is the chief scientist of CMFRI, Dr. Shyam is S Salim.
It also said that the study highlighted a sharp difference in the expenditure pattern.
The study found that when the natives spend 20 to 30 percent of their income and spend on significant parts on education and housing, migrants return home up to 75 percent of their earnings, often live in boats with minimum expenses on housing and facilities in Kerala.
In addition, the income of migrant workers was continuously lower than the original residents and average around 25,000 per month in harvest centers and fell into bus 11,000 in post -harvest jobs.
By comparing, the native workforce earned all around According to the study, 30,000.
“Despite their dominance, migrant workers remain highly weak, face exploitation, health risk and lack of social security.
“While original laborers faced major obstacles such as insufficient income, indebtedness, off-season unemployment and lack of credit interest, migrant workers struggled with most identity crises, differences with indigenous workers, differences, separation and discrimination, found, found,” said the release said.
It further stated that the ‘Labor Mobility Grid’ developed through the project underlines the complications of fisher migration, identifies push factors such as poverty and unemployment in the source states, and draws factors such as high wages and demand in Kerala.
Dr, Deputy Director of Matsya, who inaugurated the workshop. Maja Jose has been told that the government will take steps to address the concerns of migrant workers in the best possible way.
The workshop proposed immediate policy intervention for Fisher Labor Welfare, including better housing, health coverage, education aid and livelihood diversification measures.
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